Best Roast?

[tarannau]

i totally agree....the only problem is you must have fresh good quality lamb which is hard to come by...especially in restaurants (unless its top notch). with the other meats (beef, pork) you can still cut corners and buy a cheaper cut and get away with it.

I don't really believe that's true - partly because of the nature of sheep and their resistance to staying indoors in big industrial barns, lamb tends to be one of the safer options. Not saying that top quality lamb doesn't exist, but the dofference isn't nearly as marked as, say, broiler chicken vs a decent free range bird

 

[girasol]

I could eat a mountain of them especially drizzled with honey then roasted with thyme

drizzled with honey? Never tried them that way. I do like roast parsnip! Not as much as roast garlic though. Actually, there's no food in this world I love as much as roast garlic, I don't think.

Anyway, in order of preference:
1) Beef
2) Lamb
3) Pork
4) Chicken (if I must... although monkeygrinder's chicken does sound tempting)

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Roast pork with good crackling and apple sauce is my favourite
Lamb with mint and rosemary is my second favourite
Then probably roast chicken
I hate roast beef though.

You must have suffered at the hands of a dreadful cook. Hating roast beef is just not possible.

 

[magneze]

Beef's ok - got to be cooked right though, it's so often overdone. Lamb always seems to come out well.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Also, this thread includes chicken but not duck. Madness!

 

[girasol]

Beef's ok - got to be cooked right though, it's so often overdone. Lamb always seems to come out well.

Yes, beef has to be cooked right. The reason lamb isn't my top one is because it can be very fatty. When beef is cooked right it's just perfect!

I'm still dreaming about yesterday's roast (lamb), it was superb!

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Lamb's the one for me. I like them all but I luvers lamb with mint jelly.
And yes - You must have Yorkshires with lamb and chicken!

 

[Pingu]

good cut of beef cooked slowly so its really really moist... has to still be pinkish in middle though. (I have found best way to do this is in a slow cooker)

proper gravy, yorkshire pud, just enough veg and properly done roast spuds.


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


eta parships with a bit of honey are fucking lush

 

[EastEnder]

Save the cute ickle baby lambs!

Beef's ok - got to be cooked right though, it's so often overdone. Lamb always seems to come out well.

((((Cute ickle baby lamb))))

))))Evil baby lamb eating Magneze((((

 

[tarannau]

Mmm, pass the forks. That little lamb looks adorably tasty.

Let's remind ourselves of just how moist and succulent a little slab of Athlete's Foot fungustastic Quorn looks like in its natural state.

Bring me more sheep!

 

[Spark]

Also, this thread includes chicken but not duck. Madness![/

duck is one of the best, also venison, pheasant etc.

hard to choose a favourite out of everything, depends on how well it's been done and having good proper gravy.

 

[The Groke]

slooooooooooow roasted pork belly with extra-crispy crackling.


Yum.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

And yes - You must have Yorkshires with lamb and chicken!

Yorkshires belong with beef and beef alone.
Anything else is heresy

 

[WouldBe]

Yorkshires belong with beef and beef alone.
Anything else is heresy

As a tyke, yorkshire puddings are always served with Sunday dinner no matter what the meat is.

 

[Pingu]

Yorkshires belong with beef and beef alone.
Anything else is heresy

i concur

(you can eat them as a desert too though (with lemon juice and a sprinkling of sugar)

 

[zenie]

(you can eat them as a desert too though (with lemon juice and a sprinkling of sugar)

god I think i just came

Beef for me, but really I like them all equally.

Especially with homemade big yorkshire puddings, roasted nips and tatty's and lashings of proper gravy made from the meat fat

I want a roast now

 

[Mrs Miggins]

i concur

(you can eat them as a desert too though (with lemon juice and a sprinkling of sugar)

Phew - not just me then!!
I have very firm ideas about such things

And yes - they can be eaten as desert - we used to have butter and sugar on them. My husband's family used to have orange cordial on them (freaks).

We used to have chicken with boiled potatoes as well rather than roast. Roasties with chicken still feels strange to me. Having said that, we used to have mushy peas with our Christmas dinner so who am I to talk? Proper mushies though - not out of a tin like (as if that makes it better!!)

 

[Pingu]

god I think i just came

i often have that effect...

 

[WouldBe]

(you can eat them as a desert too though (with lemon juice and a sprinkling of sugar)

wierdo

 

[Pingu]

wierdo

you say that like its a bad thing

 

[ohmyliver]

another vote for lamb, especially if its been slow roasted so that the meat is almost falling off the bone.... with roast potatoes cooked in goose fat, and minted peas

Goat is also very nice slow roasted